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 Kristen C. Nelson
Associate Professor, Department of Fisheries, Wildlife and Conservation Biology and
Department of Forest Resources
Phone: (612) 624-1277
Email: nelso468@umn.edu
Internet: fr.cfans.umn.edu/people/facstaff/nelson/
Ph.D. University of Michigan
Fields of Interest
Interdisciplinary understanding of environmental change and its dynamic
with human systems. Specifically, environmental sociology, community
participation in natural resource planning and knowledge formation;
environmental dispute resolution; conservation and sustainable development;
social movements.
Courses
- ESPM 3202W Environmental Conflict Management, Leadership, and Planning
- ESPM 3251 Natural Resources in Sustainable International Development
- ESPM 3271 Environmental Policy, Law and Human Behavior
- ESPM 4041 Problem Solving for Environmental Change
- ESPM 5202 Environmental Conflict Management, Leadership, and Planning
Research
My research interests focus on several areas: community-level analysis of institutions
and organizations involved in resource conservation and development, collaboration
and conflict in environmental planning and management, and social capital and
resource mobilization. My recent projects focus on social institutions that
support ecosystem services provided by fragmented terrestrial systems at the
rural/urban interface and in developing countries; evaluation of community-level
carbon mitigation projects; social maintained biodiversity efforts. Most of
my international work has been done in Latin America, specifically Chiapas,
Mexico, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Ecuador.
Selected Publications
- Baker, L. A., P. Hartzheim, S. Hobbie, K. C. Nelson, and J. King. 2006. Effect of consumption on fluxes of carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus through households. Urban Ecosystems, DOI 10.1007/s11252-006-0014-3.(21pgs).
- Nelson, K. C. 2005. "Commentary on 'Hierarchy Theory in Sociology, Ecology, and Resource Management: A Conceptual Model for Natural Resource and Environmental Sociology and Socioecological Systems' by W. Warren, Society and Natural Resources, 18 (4): 467-470.
- Nelson, K. C., M. C. Monroe, Jayne Fingerman Johnson, and A. Bowers. 2005. The Look of the Land: Homeowner Values, Actions, and Defensible Space Landscapes in Minnesota and Florida, Society and Natural Resources, 18 (4): 321-336.
- Nelson, K. C., M. C. Monroe, J. Fingerman Johnson, and Alison Brower. 2004. Living with fire: Homeowner assessment of landscape values and defensible space in Minnesota and Florida, U.S.A., International Journal of Wildland Fire, 13(4): 13:413-425.
- Nerbonne, J. F., and K. C. Nelson. 2004. Volunteer Macroinvertebrate Monitoring in the Univted States: Resource Mobilization and Comparative State Structures. Society and Natural Resources, 17: 1-23.
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